Free for Life DLC bugs and why it sucks.

[the dewmaster]

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[KenzieAndGrandma]

cant set regime

[Joe]

I have encountered an incredible amount of bugs while playing today. My staff wouldn't eat, then my prisoners were unable to be assigned to cells they were literally just in, and just now my food distribution is completely broken and my canteen tells me it's "not assigned prisoners" no matter what. It's crazy how bugged the game is right now and it just seemed to get worse the longer I played.

[Ozoneraxi]

Here are the issues others and I found while playing with guard ranks:
- senior officer guards can shoot dozers of tazer cartridges and have no reload cooldown between shots, making them incredibly powerful, more powerful than soldiers in fact (balance issue)
- senior officer guards do not shout warnings, nor respect the freefire orders like armed guards and snipers do, and will always use lethal force... (what is the point of having armed guards/snipers shout warnings and respect the weapons free order when a standard guard who got a promotion will ignore it?)
- senior officer guards will can not be demoted after they acquired their gun from the armoury (why...?)
- chiefs should probably holster/stood their gun similar to guards and not hold it out at all times like armed guards do when freefire is on (it just looks silly really)

[Luzilyo]

I don't even have the dlc (can't use it because it's free and for some reason Valve thought it would be a great idea to exclude free dlc from shared libraries per default). But I also have issues with food distribution, namely, the cooks constantly keep carrying stuff from the pantries into the kitchen but sometimes they just drop it on the floor instead of putting it in a fridge. Also, after they cook meals, they put them into serving tables and then for some random reason they often decide to take finished meals out of the serving tables and bring them into a pantry. This did not happen until the update which introduced the free dlc.

[T1 Ahri Dva]

It also happens to me, I lose the games by BUG in the game that does not detect the change in diet.

[Playzr 🐵]

Guard: "I'm hungry"
Architect: "There's food here"
Guard: "Nah. I'm hungry"
Architect: "There's food everywhere on every tile of the map"
Guard: "No thanks. I'm hungry"
Architect: "But I literally built the prison out of food"
Guard: "Nope. I'm hungry"

[Cosmo 🐲]

My prisoners are starving to death, but there are plenty of food. I cant play with out ruining my game

[Playzr 🐵]

If Paradox released a DLC that simply fixed all of the bugs for like £3 I'd probably buy it. Will that incentivise them enough?

[Luzilyo]

Originally posted by Рlαγζr 🐵:

If Paradox released a DLC that simply fixed all of the bugs for like £3 I'd probably buy it. Will that incentivise them enough?

nah, you'll have to pay at least 10, maybe 20 lmao

[Playzr 🐵]

35!

[Joe]

Originally posted by Joe:

I have encountered an incredible amount of bugs while playing today. My staff wouldn't eat, then my prisoners were unable to be assigned to cells they were literally just in, and just now my food distribution is completely broken and my canteen tells me it's "not assigned prisoners" no matter what. It's crazy how bugged the game is right now and it just seemed to get worse the longer I played.

I would like to clarify that I like another user in the thread didn't actually have the DLC downloaded at the time that the bugs occurred. But, I had downloaded the hotel crowbar update.

[Dominian]

Cell doors stay open with prisoners inside and they can't be assigned to a canteen either. Everybody starving to death, nobody going to the canteen.

[Playzr 🐵]

While it would be an efficient solution to the prisoner problem, starving them all to death would be inhumane. Instead we lock them up in confined spaces for most of their lives while allowing them to violate each other in the showers.
Prisoners not eating seems to be the most common bug I've heard about, and definitely breaks the game making it unplayable. It's really unfortunate because we would all go to great lengths designing and building a prison, maybe even just a basic one, only to find out the prisoners are starving while the devs are eating gold plated lobsters in their mansions.
I wonder if you used the vending machines mod if they would get their food from that instead. I think there's a water dispenser too that counts as food for some reason so they wouldn't need money to eat. The prisons I made when using that mod usually had some game breaking issue like prisoners getting off the bus and are instantly freed.

[Il Mago]

Today I witnessed cooks pass through a wall to fill a food table.

[Playzr 🐵]

Ghost cooks confirmed *x files theme*